cooker at Kidang Mas Batik House, Lasem, Java island, Indonesia, Southeast Asia

Parabolic solar powered cooker in Pheriche, Sagarmatha National Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Solukhumbu District, Nepal, Himalayas, Asia

A solar cooker being used to cook food at the offices of WWF India, in Delhi, India.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. The use of the cookers, vastly reduces the amount of fire wood women have to go out and collect from the forest.

Women welding joints during the construction of solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Solar cookers save women having to walk to the froest to cut down wood for cooking, thus saving the forests, and a daily chore for woman.

Women welding joints during the construction of solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Solar cookers save women having to walk to the froest to cut down wood for cooking, thus saving the forests, and a daily chore for woman.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. The use of the cookers, vastly reduces the amount of fire wood women have to go out and collect from the forest.

Women welding joints during the construction of solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. Solar cookers save women having to walk to the froest to cut down wood for cooking, thus saving the forests, and a daily chore for woman.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India, demonstrate how hot the device is, by holding a sheet of newspaper which instantly sets on fire in the 300 degree Celcius heat. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. The use of the cookers, vastly reduces the amount of fire wood women have to go out and collect from the forest.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows a cook preparing chapatis on a biofuel stove.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows a Hematology Analyzer for analyzing blood in one of the labs in the specialist cancer hospital.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows solar panels that focus the suns rays on heat exchangers to boil oil, which is then sent down to the kitchens below to heat the cookers.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows the solar air conditioning for the Ashram's hospital.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows a Varian nuclear proton therapy machine in the specialist cancer hospital.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows a woman planting trees for onward growth in the Ashrams forests.

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows the girls school.

Solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. The use of the cookers, vastly reduces the amount of fire wood women have to go out and collect from the forest.

Women constructing solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people. The use of the cookers, vastly reduces the amount of fire wood women have to go out and collect from the forest.

Women building solar cookers at the Barefoot College in Tilonia, Rajasthan, India. The Barefoot College is a worldwide charity, founded by Bunker Roy, its aims are, education, drinking water, electrification through solar power, skill development, health, women empowerment and the upliftment of rural people.

A stove at the old British Antarctic Survey station on Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands off the Antarctic Peninsular which is an active volcanic caldera. It was abandoned in 1967 when it was over run by a volcanic eruption.

A solar cooker for baking bread at Annapurna Base Camp, Himalayas, Nepal, Asia

A solar cooker for baking bread at Annapurna Base Camp, Himalayas, Nepal, Asia

A solar cooker for baking bread at Annapurna Base Camp, Himalayas, Nepal, Asia

A gas cooker

White goods at a scrap recycling plant in Oldham, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

A gas cooker, United Kingdom, Europe

Fish grilling over campfire with dutch oven

Oven outdoors in garden

Potato and chicken casserole baking in oven

Hispanic woman holding cake in pan with oven mitts

A day with the Bribri, indigenous people in Lim?n Province of Costa Rica

Primary school in Africa. Meal ladies

Primary school in Africa. Kitchen

View of cattle herd from above, Cockpit, Sterling Buntine, Lansdowne Station, Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia

tasty German bread ibeing taken out of the oven, Vellberg, Schwaebisch Hall, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Copra drying in the oven, Malekula, Vanuatu, South Pacific, Oceania

The Lovo underground furnace opens to passengers of cruise ship MV Reef Endeavor (Captain Cook Cruises Fiji) during a nightly village visit, Gunu, Naviti Island, Yasawa Group, Fiji Islands, South Pacific

Koniks (wild horses) in the Geltinger Birk, Baltic Sea, nature reserve, Geltinger Birk, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Koniks (wild horses) in the Geltinger Birk, Baltic Sea, nature reserve, Geltinger Birk, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Young man making coffee with a camp cooker, Freilassing, Bavaria, Germany

Koniks (wild horses) in the Geltinger Birk, Baltic Sea, nature reserve, Geltinger Birk, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Koniks (wild horses) in the Geltinger Birk, Baltic Sea, nature reserve, Geltinger Birk, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Koniks (wild horses) in the Geltinger Birk, Baltic Sea, nature reserve, Geltinger Birk, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Koniks (wild horses) in the Geltinger Birk, Baltic Sea, nature reserve, Geltinger Birk, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Preparation of a chicken curry, La Reunion, Indian Ocean

Preserving pan and preserving bottles for making juice and syrup, Homemade

Koniks (wild horses) in the Geltinger Birk, Baltic Sea, nature reserve, Geltinger Birk, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Preparation of a chicken curry, La Reunion, Indian Ocean

Induction cooker with aubergines and knife, Kitchen

Young man making coffee with a camp cooker, Freilassing, Bavaria, Germany

Swabian pockets (cook.) or ravioli (Pasta squares filled with meat and spinach)

Pressure cooker on stove made of clay with a wood fire, Acampamento 12 de Otubro landless camp, Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra, a Brazilian landless movement, MST, Munizip Claudia, Mato Grosso, Brazil, South America

Woman cooking in simple kitchen, Amazon Basin, Brazil

Gas stove, flame

Espresso maker over a flame on a gas cooker

Gas oven

Couple warming up night by campfire

Two young women cooking together

Young cook holding burning pan hand

Three cooking pots on a cooker in an open-air kitchen, Colombia, South America

Gas flame on a cooker

Rice with curcuma in a saucepan, stew on a camping cooker with windbreak, gas cooker, easy outdoor cooking, outdoors, England, Great Britain

Gas oven

Vegetables, courgettes, spring onions, spring onions in a saucepan, camping cooker with windbreak, gas cooker, easy outdoor cooking, outdoors, England, Great Britain

Traditional German cuisine - Roasted pork knuckle eisbein (Schweinshaxe) in iron pan on black background

Muslim man arab restaurant

Pan with fried vegetables stove

Chicken Tikka Masala, ready meal and fresh ingredients in a cooking pot, camping cooker with windbreak, gas cooker, outdoor cooking, outdoors, England, Great Britain

Traditional Brazilian food being prepared on old and popular wood stove, Brasil

View from above of unrecognizable woman with smartphone taking photo of frying pan with tomato sauce for culinary blog while cooking in kitchen at home. Food blogger recording video of cooking process

Closeup overhead view of female hand adding canned whole peeled tomatoes into frying pan while preparing pasta sauce

Closeup view of female hand stirring chopped vegetables in a frying pan with wooden spatula. Process of preparation of vegetable gravy

Overhead view of frying pan with tomato sauce on modern electric stove, the glass lid lies next to it

A sheep in the grass in the field, a sheep in the field facing the camera with copy space, sheep in the field with mountains in the background Trondheim, norway

Closeup view of female hand adding canned whole peeled tomatoes into frying pan while preparing pasta sauce

Closeup view of female hand puts chopped vegetables in a frying pan. Process of preparation of vegetable gravy

Steaming potatoes in a potato steamer, Europa Park near Neu-Anspach, Hochtaunuskreis district, Hesse, Germany, Europe

The Muni Seva Ashram in Goraj, near Vadodara, India, is a tranquil haven of humanitarian care. The Ashram is hugely sustainable, next year it will be completely carbon neutral. Its first solar panels were installed in 1984, long before climate change was on anyones agenda. Their energy is provided from solar panels, and wood grown on the estate. Waste food and animal manure is turned inot biogas to run the estates cars and also used for cooking. Solar cookers are also used, and the air conditioning for the hospital is solar run. 70 % of the food used is grown on the estate. They provide an orphanage, schools for all ages, vocational training, care for the elderly, a specialist cancer hospital withstate of the art machinary, and even have a solar crematorium. This shot shows solar panels that focus the suns rays on heat exchangers to boil oil, which is then sent down to the kitchens below to heat the cookers.

Chefs Preparing Food In Kitchen

Chef's Preparing Food In A Kitchen

Mexico, Oaxaca, Large earthenware pots of food cooking over hot coals.

A woman pouring tea, by a range cooker. Using decorative china, Ringwood, Hampshire, England

View of Schwabisch Hall, Germany